Delivery of 3-MeV Proton and Neutron Beams at CPHS: A Status Report on Accelerator and Neutron Activities at Tsinghua University

The Compact Pulsed Hadron Source (CPHS) project that was launched in September 2009 at Tsinghua University has reached a first commissioning stage in conjunction with on-going activities to fulfill the eventual design goal of a ∼1013 n/s epithermal-to-cold neutron yield for education, instrumentation development, and industrial applications. Here, we report the latest progress on the design, fabrication, engineering of the 13 MeV/16 kW proton accelerator system, the neutron target station and neutron beamlines, especially regarding the successful delivery of the first 3-MeV proton beam and the realization of the first neutron generation in 2013.